Kasese
District was seriously hit by ADF and the LRA war by Joseph Kony
which was known to the entire world that affected people mostly
children who were forcibly recruited
as "child soldier". As a result of the war,many people deserted their
homes especially those who lived in mountainous villages and camped in
Kasese town. The rebel soldiers raped women and young girls resulting to
the spread of HIV/AIDS in addition to the hardship created by the war.
Because of poverty, starvation, diseases and lack of medications, we
lost thousand of lives living behind the AIDS Orphans and many
distressed children who also lost their parents to war.

As
a servant of God, seeing the crisis situation as being very terrible
and pathetic, I was lead in the spirit to make my humble contribution to
helping these suffering children especially the AIDS Orphans, the
orphans who lost their parents as a result of the war and people living
with HIV/AIDS
and I started in 2006. In 2007, we began to collect the abandoned
children, AIDS Orphans, adults and children living with HIV/AIDS virus.
We collected a lot of children and started providing variety of services
such as feeding, clothing, education, medical services, providing
responsible Guardians to accommodate them etc. These services were made
through donations and contributions from members of the public and
mostly from members in all the churches in the community.

In
2009, I initiated a general conference of all the churches in the
community and shared some information about the pathetic situation of
children. In that conference, ALL the Pastors of the local Churches
embraced the vision of establishing homes for the AIDS orphans, other
distressed Children,
people living with HIV/AIDS. They all decided and agreed to continue
to support the services being offered as enumerated above. We have been
providing these services to the best we can but of recent, about a year
ago, we are having a lot of financial constraint due to economic
recession as most of our community supporters and members of our various
churches have lost their jobs and businesses. We can barely pay the
teachers, provide the necessary services and the continue upkeep of the
children as the future now looks blink for us and the children. We
cannot even afford a good toilet system and clean drinking water for the
children which may even compound the already worst situation with the
infection of more diseases for the children. Attached are photographs of
our activities showing the children, the teachers, the uncompleted
school building, the exposed latrine (toilet) being used by both the
children and teachers and other photos as
highlighted. On behalf of the children, teachers, members of the
community, I am therefore appealing for donation both in funds and
gift-in- kind so that we can continue our services and provide hope to
these children, the future leaders of tomorrow.